I Hate Carpet!!!

[JLC]

Ugh. I hate it I hate it I hate it!

Cream colored, deep pile carpet. 4 year old child. Chocolate milk. No...not a spill. Chocolate milk that's been sitting and curdling in his stomach for a couple of hours....thrown up ALL over the deep pile, cream colored carpet. Not to mention his bed, pillow, blankets....but all those things can be washed.

The carpet? Hell no. I took my Oxy-clean carpet cleaner...and my hand-held carpet shampoo-er......and turned a giant, sopping slimy mess into an even bigger beige continent on a cream-colored sea. Well, at least it doesn't smell bad anymore.

I swear, the landlords are going to expect us to replace this crap with brand new carpet when we move out.

I've already explained to my hubby that we're ripping out ALL the downstairs carpet in our San Antonio house when we move out there in a few months. It's gonna be all tile. Nice, beautiful tile....that can be mopped and disinfected and you'd never know that a four year old milk-o-holic threw up on it.

Bleh....I hate carpet. Did I say that already?

Thanks for letting me rant.

[joepythons]

Judy,is your little one ok? Tell him/her i am sending tummy well wishes his/her way all the way from Illinois .

[JLC]

Thanks Joe. He'll be ok. He's getting over a bad cold, and for whatever reason, the last couple days of any illness make him very prone to throwing up. I'll just have to be extra careful about what I let him eat and drink the rest of the weekend. It's just hard because ohmygosh, that kid LOOOOVES his chocolate milk. (Made with ovaltine so at least he gets SOME nutritional benefit from it! LOL)


But I still hate carpet! I've got other beige "continents"...and orange ones...and pink ones, too. I really, really don't know how people with young children manage to keep white carpet white.

[joepythons]

Well keep him full of chocolate milk in another room till he feels better .I will share a theory i have about people with white carpets.Either they do not allow anyone in that room or they replace it before anyone comes over lol.

[JLC]

Well, this whole house is covered in the stuff...so I can't exactly keep anyone off of it. LOL I really am looking forward to moving back to San Antonio and having all tile downstairs. The bedrooms will still have carpet, but if a little one is sick, he can camp out downstairs.

[Ginevive]

I despise carpeting; I would go for it in the bedroom, but nowhere else. The house we're renting is all hardwood floors; not a stitch of carpeting except for area rugs; it is great because everyone who walks in here has muddy/dirty feet, and I can easily just sweep/mop.

[Emilio]

Trust me having two kid's I also hate carpet!!! I think it's just crap I have to clean mine every month and a hallf just to make it look decent. Nothing like tile marble etc.

[frankykeno]

Mom to Mom Judy...I hate carpet too and I've done the "throw my body in front of a puking kid" thing...better they toss up on me then my dang carpet (I wash easy!). Tile or hardwood flooring is the way to go with kiddo's in the house.

Unfotunately, the milk is encouraging more mucus hon. That's why he's upchucking as the last days of his chest cold is the time when his lungs are clearing out mucus. I always cut the kid's milk half and half with water when they have a cold (can't let them see me do it though as they get snarky about that LOL I have a bunch of milk-a-holics purists here too...I need to own a cow! LOL)

The joys of motherhood!

[SarahMB]

Awww, poor little fella

I'm with ya on the carpet. My front room has light beige carpet with pink and blue spots all over it. I'd like to get a large area rug to cover it up, but I have a cat that thinks rugs are meant to be marked. That's even worse! lol
And I can't replace the carpet because said cat also likes to claw carpet and furniture. I'm not allowed anything new until I either get him declawed (shudder) or he kicks it.

[stangs13]

Thanks Joe. He'll be ok. He's getting over a bad cold, and for whatever reason, the last couple days of any illness make him very prone to throwing up. I'll just have to be extra careful about what I let him eat and drink the rest of the weekend. It's just hard because ohmygosh, that kid LOOOOVES his chocolate milk. (Made with ovaltine so at least he gets SOME nutritional benefit from it! LOL)


But I still hate carpet! I've got other beige "continents"...and orange ones...and pink ones, too. I really, really don't know how people with young children manage to keep white carpet white.

We have 2 dogs and a cat me and my brother...and it never stays clean for long!! LOL! Normaly its the dog..(my dog)....who does it. Hes a tennis ball freak (border collie LOL!) and if he sees a tennis ball from out side he will go get it doesnt matter if he is wet and muddy he will get it...crazy dog...

Our carpet is cream colored. We (like every 5 months ) willl have Stanley Steamers come out and wash the carpets....gets them some what back to normal!!


YAY! Your moving to San Antonio!! Im glad! Youll be closer!! Our Texas BP members need to all meet up every once and awhile and talk and sell snakes together!! Sounds fun ,huh?